Minnefer

For the Ancient Egyptian vizier of the Fifth Dynasty, see Minnefer (vizier).
Statue of Minnefer in Cleveland

Minnefer (also Min-Nefer, meaning "Min is perfect") was Supervisor of Palace Attendants and Overseer of Messengers during the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt. He was buried in a mastaba in Giza. When it was excavated, his tomb still housed four statues of Minnefer. One of these is now in the Cleveland Museum of Art[1] and shows him standing with left foot forward, clenched fists and his back to a wall. The other three statues, all broken, are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Cleveland: J.H. Wade Fund 1948.420; Lawrence M. Berman: Catalogue of Egyptian Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, New York 1999, ISBN 0940717530, pp. 126-27, no. 70
  2. ↑ Boston Museum of Fine Arts, online catalog, statues of Minnefer, accessed 24th April 2016.


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